BREAKING: Obama’s ATF Head Makes Huge Move to Track Every Single Gun Owner

In a perfect world, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would be an awesomely convenient one-stop-shop type of retail store. Alas, it is instead a tyrannical government agency intent on infringing upon the civil rights of law-abiding American citizens.

Deputy Director Thomas Brandon, acting head of the ATF, recently sat down for an interview with correspondent Richard Schlesinger of CBS News’ “Sunday Morning,” during which he revealed just the sort of plans for future tyranny that his agency has already become infamous for.

“We’re a small agency with a big job,” Brandon claimed, insisting that his agency didn’t want to take guns away from anybody, but merely wanted to regulate them to avoid potential misuse by some.

Brandon lamented the fact that his agency faced so much opposition, particularly from Congress and gun rights advocacy groups, and that it had so many constraints imposed upon it that prevents it from utilizing technology to make its purported job easier, such as a computerized database of gun purchasers (read: lawful gun owners), which it is specifically prohibited from having.

But Brandon remained undeterred in his longing for a database of guns and gun owners, complaining to the CBS correspondent that it took a whole 12 hours for his agency to track down the owner of the guns used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, a search he believed would have been completed much more quickly with the aid of a database.

“There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense in this town, you know?” Brandon told Schlesinger. “And, so, yeah, would it be efficient and effective? Absolutely. Would the taxpayers benefit with public safety? Absolutely. Are we allowed to do it? No.”

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“I think we ought to get rid of the ATF,” proclaimed Republican Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner, who adamantly opposed an ATF database of gun purchases, as that would inevitably lead to “de facto gun registration,” which in turn would allow for gun confiscation.

There is a reason that the ATF has been specifically forbidden from compiling and maintaining a database of gun purchases and owners, as that would indeed serve as a de facto registration of gun owners.

It would only be a matter of time before such a database would be used to begin confiscating firearms from certain law-abiding gun owners, such as, say, political opponents of a certain presidential candidate who has made strict gun control a central plank in her campaign for the presidency.

Should Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump be elected in November, he should immediately dismiss this anti-gun hack from his powerful position and then begin the process of downsizing the offending agency, rolling certain responsibilities into other agencies better suited for the particular task, and eventually abolishing entirely the dastardly ATF.

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